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Bone

Chris Butler

My body
somehow
holds my
brokenness
together,

even though
this pelvic crest
protrudes
beyond my
creviced chest,

a body
featuring
narrowly entrenched
marrow
pits
sparingly
fractured and
severed
for tomorrow’s
afternoon
appetizer,

served
before dinner,

during which
an encaged
man
will drum
inside
my xylophone
ribs,
while strumming
the stripped
spinal chord
left on the
barren
plates.

Now out in the open,
his bare body
becomes
porous from
the process of
osteoperosis,

posturing
the unsolicited
encore of his
performance with
bowed scoliosis,

personified
as a criss-crossed
christ
crucified
obtusely
by his own
endoskeleton,

as
my body
embodies
nothing but
hollow
bone.

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